ABSTRACT
Every Information technology (IT) organization will be forced to confront the trends and deal with them in one fashion or another. The dilemma faced by IT leaders is to determine which trends need to be addressed as strategic imperatives and which are simply tactical challenges that can be marginalized or disregarded altogether. Leaders understand the theoretical importance of making strategic investments in new organizational capabilities. Every leader needs to periodically step back and pretend that they’re newly appointed to their current role. They need to perform a SWOT analysis to honestly determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing their teams and develop focused action plans that bolster existing strengths, remedy weaknesses, seize opportunities, and eliminate threats. Every change campaign needs a clear end state vision that is restated repeatedly by its leaders.
